The Wrong War Quotes

“It is not the young man who misses the days he does not know,' the Roman general Marcus Aurelius wrote. 'It is us, the living, who bear the pain of those lost days.”
― Bing West, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan

“Year after year, the senior command placed a lone rifle company inside the Korengal, with power hard enough to antagonize the villagers but not overwhelming enough to break their will to fight.”
― Bing West, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan